Well said Kent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 11:38 AM, kent williams <chaircrusher@gmail.com>
wrote:
quoted 92 lines Every genre defines conventions. Every genre, furthermore demands a
> Every genre defines conventions. Every genre, furthermore demands a
> different sort of listening if you're going to understand and enjoy it. To
> say "The genre that sounds like some kid forgot to add a snare to his
> half-assed Fruity Loops rap instrumental" is to dismiss a whole musical
> culture based on a very shallow listening experience, and no understanding
> of the culture in which it grew up.
>
> Juke/Footwork music is very much the product of kids with cracked copies
> of Fruity Loops; they work with the tools they have. The motivation was to
> make music whose purpose is to accompany footwork dancing, which is
> competetive, athletic and intense. The idea is to have the freshest,
> trickiest rhythm, often played back on shitty boomboxes or Frankenstein
> sound systems.. Footwork, like Jit in Detroit, is both dance and stylized
> warfare; it sublimates the violence and frustration of life in "Chiraq."
> It is something positive in an environment where people are confronted
> daily with unrelenting negative things.
>
> There's a billion footwork tracks and thousands of people making it.
> Inevitably most of it is not very good, but like any other genre, when it's
> good it's great.
>
> It's OK not to like musical styles. I bet you're not so hot on bluegrass
> music as well. But like my grandmother always told me about cream corn,
> "it's better to say you don't care for it than say you hate it."
>
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 12:26 PM David Bohan <madvlad00@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Kent,
>>
>> Why does Jared have to be ignorant to not like Footwork? It seems like
>> Jared just thinks this kind of music does not require much effort or much
>> of it is the same.
>>
>> I listened to the compilation album "Bangs & Works Vol. 1" and have found
>> his sentiment to be true for most of the tracks on that release, with some
>> exceptions of course.
>>
>> Now Jlin's release here is much more experimental and fresh sounding than
>> the long tracks of TV show themes spread out over lazy beats.
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Jared Dunne <22tape@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Ignorant or silly? Either way, I can't help myself, Kent! Honestly,
>>> Jlin's stuff isn't that bad. But for some reason it all sounds a bit
>>> unfinished to me. But if peeps want to call it minimal, so be it!
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 12:18 PM, kent williams <chaircrusher@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Jared, stop being ignorant.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 11:04 AM Jared Dunne <22tape@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Ah yes, Footwork. The genre that sounds like some kid forgot to add a
>>>>> snare to his half-assed Fruity Loops rap instrumental. Yay world!
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:51 AM, David Bohan <madvlad00@gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I haven't heard of "Footwork"... is this a new genre of music or
>>>>>> something?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The tracks you linked to sound interesting to say the least. Find it
>>>>>> also curious that Jlin works at a steel mill in Gary, Indiana... Not much
>>>>>> music prides itself on coming from Indiana
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 11:29 AM, kent williams <
>>>>>> chaircrusher@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm surprised footwork/juke hasn't been a bigger thing on the IDM
>>>>>>> list. This new record on Planet Mu is revelatory.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://www.planet.mu/discography/ZIQ356
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> 22tape/jared dunne
>>>>> listen <http://22tape.com>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> 22tape/jared dunne
>>> listen <http://22tape.com>
>>>
>>
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